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No. 338,002. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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THOMAS P. TAYLOR AND M. BURDETT HAMMOND, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONN.

CORSET-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,002, dated March 16, 1886.

Application filed October-17, 1885. Serial No. 180.135. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, THOMAS P. TAYLOR and M. BURDETT HAMMOND, citizens of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corset-Covers; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention has for its object to produce a corset-cover which shall be simple in con struction and economical in cost, and which at the same time will do away with the necessity for the use of independent dress shields.

\Ve are well aware that perspiration-proof underwear is not new, our present invention being intended to avoid the disagreeable features attendant upon the use of this style of underwear, and at the same time to retain the convenient features thereof, and at much less cost than the perspiration proof garments. In other words, we combine the ordinary features of a corset cover and a dressshield in a single garment. This we accomplish by so constructing the corset-cover that it is perspirationproof at just the points where it is required to bethat is, under the armsand at no other portion. It is of course well understood that it is impossible for perspiration-proof underwear to go into general use. It has therefore been necessary to purchase independent dress -shields and attach them to different articles of clothing, or else to change them from garment to garment.

Our improved corset-cover is so constructed that independent dress shields are rendered wholly unnecessary, and at the same time the disagreeablefeatures of perspirationproof underwear are wholly avoided. In describing our invention we shall refer by letters to the ac companying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which the figure of the drawing is an elevation of our improved corsetcover, the left side of the figure showing it in its normal position, and the right side showing it as turned inside out.

A represents a corset-cover, which may be of the usual or anypreferred construction.

B is the sleeve; 0, the sleeve seam; and D a section of perspiration -proof material, consisting of parts (1- aud d, and forming part of the garment itself. The upper portion of section D, which we have indicated by d, serves as a protection for the under side of the sleeve of an outer garment, and the lower portion, which we have indicated by (1, serves as a protection for the outer garment under the arm.

As shown in the drawing, part d of section D forms a portion of the sleeve-that is to say, but half of the sleeve is formed of the usual material, the under portion thereof consisting simply of part (I of section D, which isjoined to the upper portion by seams E. Part (1 of section 1) forms a portion of the body of the garment, the corset-cover proper being cut away under the arm, and the ma terial thereof joined to the outer edge of part d by seams F.

For the purposes of my invention any suitable material may be used for section D. We preferably, however, use a perspiration-proof material consisting of a thin layer of rubber covered upon both sides with stockinet. It will of course be understood that the details of construction may be varied within reasonable limits without departing from the spirit of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, we claim A corset-cover composed of textile material, having the upper half of the sleeves made of the material of the garment, and having cutaway portions under the arms, in combination with sections of perspiration proof material, consisting of parts d and d, one of said parts forming the under half of the sleeves and the other portion forming the portion of the body just under the sleeves, said sections beingjoined t0 the upper half of the sleeves and to the body by seams E and F, as shown.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

\Vitnesses:

A. M. WOos'rER, G. E. RUcGLEs. 

